This is Rameau's 1754 revision of Castor et Pollux, performed by Toronto's Opera in Concert and the Aradia Ensemble from a score prepared by conductor Kevin Mallon. Though it is a studio recording, it followed closely on the heels of a series of live performances, and it benefits from the spontaneity and dramatic energy gained from them. The ...
The folk music of Scotland, as well as of other regions whose music has been shaped by the vocabulary of Western concert music, has seen performances that fall along an entire continuum from formal arrangements for voice and piano to pure re-creations of folk practice, with percussion and full-throated singing untouched by classical vocal ...
This wonderful disc is a collaboration between Les Charbonniers de l'Enfer (an a cappella ensemble that specializes in the traditional songs of Quebec and Acadia) and La Nef (a trio that specializes in both early and contemporary classical music). The title refers to the crossing of waters both great and small by centuries of sailors; the program ...
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